Recent Graduate Residency
The Recent Graduate Residency offers a unique and substantial professional development opportunity to emerging artists.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Recent Graduate Residency Award is a professional development opportunity aimed at recent graduate artists in Ireland. The Recent Graduate Residency Award 2025 offers a large free studio for one year, a €7,000 artist bursary, and a variety of institutional supports, to an artist who has graduated from an undergraduate degree in the past three years.
The Recent Graduate Residency Award assists artists in focusing their studio practices at this crucial point in their careers. It provides an opportunity for emerging artists to develop their careers in Dublin city, within the creative community of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, and among the professional artists who work there.
In 2025, this opportunity is aimed at all artists who have graduated from a Fine Art (or related) BA/BFA in any recognised university or third level institution in Ireland in the past three years, and Irish artists who have graduated from a Fine Art (or related) BA/BFA outside of Ireland in the past three years (2024/2023/2022).
The immediate benefit of the award offers respite. Despite being in a city with over 3,200 vacant buildings, space is a rarity, and a secure space is a luxury. With this award, I want to consider how my studio space can be used by working to create an active archive of materials relevant to my practice, as a way of documenting the memory of a space. The Recent Graduate Residency Award at TBG+S gives me the opportunity to broaden my techniques and technologies in my practice on a level I would have never thought possible before. The city centre location means I am close to archives and research centres which make my practice of gleaning materials and knowledge that much more sustainable. - Christopher McMullan, TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency Award Recipient 2024